Applying blend modes to multiple layers

- Blend modes are something that makes working…in Photoshop really fun…because they allow you to take layers…and make them interact with one another…in ways that you probably never even thought were possible.…Now we have a lot of courses that cover blend modes,…specifically inside of the Lynda.com online training…library, so I'm not going to bore you with the big…spiel about what blend modes are and how they work…and all that stuff.…Let's just talk about how we apply blend modes.…And basically, they work like this, you take a layer…in the Layers panel, once you have it selected,…you grab this little section where it says Normal…and you find the particular blend mode that you want to…change and then you select it.…

So let's change this one to, let's say, Overlay.…And that's going to create an effect that happens.…Then, let's say that we change this one…and we change this one down to Overlay.…And it does something kind of like that.…Well, cool, but did you know that you can actually…change the blend mode of multiple layers at the same time?…

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9/16/2015

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